Astronomy Picture of the Day

   [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
      fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation
                    written by a professional astronomer.

                                 2024 May 7
   [2]A swirling blue disk is illustrated with a deep colorful indentation
    in the middle. A light colored jet shoots out of this middle, from a
     small dot that is a black hole. Please see the explanation for more
                            detailed information.

                        Black Hole Accreting with Jet
    Illustration Credit: [3]NASA, [4]Swift, [5]Aurore Simonnet ([6]Sonoma
                                  State U.)

   Explanation: What happens when a black hole devours a star? Many
   details remain unknown, but observations are providing new clues. In
   2014, a [7]powerful explosion was recorded by the ground-based robotic
   telescopes of the [8]All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (Project
   ASAS-SN), with followed-up observations by instruments including
   [9]NASA's Earth-orbiting [10]Swift satellite. Computer modeling of
   these emissions fit a star being [11]ripped apart by a distant
   [12]supermassive black hole. The results of such a collision are
   portrayed in the [13]featured artistic illustration. The [14]black hole
   itself is a depicted as a tiny black dot in the center. As matter falls
   toward [15]the hole, it collides with other matter and [16]heats up.
   Surrounding the black hole is an [17]accretion disk of hot matter that
   used to be the star, with a [18]jet emanating from the [19]black hole's
   spin axis.

          Fall towards eternity: [20]It's Black Hole Week at NASA!
                    Tomorrow's picture: space, distorted
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References

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   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2405/BlackHole_Simonnet_2491.jpg
   3. https://www.nasa.gov/
   4. https://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/
   5. http://auroresimonnet.com/about-me/
   6. http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/
   7. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa6003
   8. http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~assassin/index.shtml
   9. https://www.nasa.gov/
  10. https://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/
  11. https://thedoorguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/DOG-14.jpg
  12. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130312.html
  13. https://news.mit.edu/2017/black-hole-choking-stardust-0315
  14. https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/black-holes/
  15. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220501.html
  16. http://stronggravity.eu/public-outreach-tmp/accretion-disks/
  17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050312.html
  18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap131120.html
  19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap011029.html
  20. https://science.nasa.gov/universe/black-hole-week/
  21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240506.html
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  26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html
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  30. https://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=240507
  31. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240508.html
  32. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
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  34. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html
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  37. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html
  38. https://www.nasa.gov/general/accessibility/
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